Attachment for stables.



PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

S. R. KIMBALL. ATTACHMENT FOR STABLES.

PPLI TION FILED MMLZB 1 07. A 0A 9 2SHEETS-SHEET 1.

A TTOR/VE Y5 No. 883,204. PATENTBD MAR. 31, 1908.

S. R. KIMBALL.

ATTACHMENT FOR STABLES.

rrnm non rum) 1511.2 1907. A A I 2 sums-sum 2.

A TTOR/VE Y5 I move UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER, RIG HARD-KIMBALL, OF SISSETON, SOUTH DAKOTA.-

Application ma ma as, 1001. Serial No. 304,788.

To all whom it may concern:

Be' it know n that I, SYLvas'mn .Rwnaan KnuuLL, a citizen of the.UnitedStates, re-

- siding at Sisseton in the county of Roberts and t Dakota, haveinventeda ate of South newtand useful Attachment for Stables, 'of whichthe following is a specification.

Thisinvention has reference to improve-- ments m attachments for stablesand is de-' signed to provlde .a means whereby the con-1 tents of thestalls-may be received In suitable receptacles and then removedfrom timeto time at one single point.

The invention consists essentially .in a

series of conveyers arranged in pits at the' s, which conveyers leadultimately to a loading conveyer arrangedfto back of the stal carrythematerial deposited on thelother convelyers to'a wagonor other means.ofretents of the stallsmay be thrown into the pits adjacent thereto uponthe conveyers for a considerable period of. time until the conveyers arepractically all loaded, and then .these'conveyers may be operated tocarry the load thereon to a single point of delivery, whence anotherconveyer may carry the material to wagons, but 1n order that. thelastnamed conveyer ma not become choked by an excess of materla comingfrom the other conveyerasaid conveyer may be rovided with-means foroperatmg it when t e other conveyers have been slowed down or stopped.

The invention will be fully understood from the followin detaileddescription taken in connection the accompan drawings forming part ofthis spec' cation, in which,---

Figure 1 is a cross section through a portion of a-stable showing thestalls and the conve ers adj acent thereto; Fig. 2 is a view,

partia y diagrammatic, showinglthe arrange of t ment of the delivery ende conveyer;

3 is a top plan view of the conveyer system; Fig. 4 is a partiallysectional view of the transmission gea between two convey- 'ers arrangedat right angles to eachother;

and Fig. 5 is a detail view of a modification.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a suitable floor 11 beneathwhich are pits 2. arranged along rows of stalls 3 which, as contemplatedby the system shown in Fi 3 'will extend along two parallel sides 0 thestable and across one end thereof. These pits may be provided with asuitable lining 4, and, if deslred, may be properly drained,

Provision is made whereby the con one end of although the means fordraini not shown. Each pit is provide with doors or hinged covers 5which may be so arranged that t ere is one door or cover for each stall,and these doors may be kept normally closed andonl-y raised when it isdesired to deposit the contents of the stall in the pit. In each pit isarranged a conveyer 6 WhlGh may be of the ordinary endless type assingat each end over rollers 7 provided wit suitable journals 8 properlymounted in the walls of the pits 0r othegwise supported. The conveyersare each arranged to deposit their contents upon a conveyer running atright angles thereto, as indicated in Fig. 3; that is, there is oneconveyer 6 extend] through the stab e and this is arranged to depositits contents upon another conveyer 6 running alonglbehind the line ofstalls across t e stable, and this latter conveyer 6 is arran ed todeposit .its contents up'on still a thir conveyer 6 running along back.of the line of stalls on the side of the stable opposite to thefirst-named conveyer 6. At the delivery end of the last-named conveyer 6there is arran ed a supplemental conveyer 9, to be .hereina ter referredto, and

veyers 6 may be applied by means of a shaft 11 ca ing a pulley 12 whichreceives motion throug a be t 13 from any suitable source of power, andthis shaft may carry onemember of a friction clutch 14, the other memberof whichis carried b the journal 8 of the roller 7 over which t edelivery end of the last conveyer 6 of the series passes. This clutchmay be manipulated b means of a suitable handle 15 w1thin reac of anoerator. Power being applied'through the elt 13, the conveyer 6 is madeto travel in the proper direction and, acting as a drive belt, willrotate the roller 7 at its other end. Upon the journal 8'of this roller7 is a bevel gear 16 meshing with another bevel gear 17 on a shorttransmission shaft 18 carrying a bevel gear 19 atits other end, and thisgear 19 meshes with another bevel gear 20 on the journal 8 of theadjacent roller 70f the intermediate conveyer 6, and at the receivingend of this intermediate conveyer 6 there is another system oftransmission ear, similarv to that described, b means of w 'ch motion istransmitted to t e first conveyer of the series most remote from thedelivery end of the pits is s ams. cumm- 2mm. Patented larch s1,.1eos. 3

along the line of stalls 3 the series. The transmission gear is bestshown in Fig. 4t.

The conveyer 9 is hinged at its lower end so that it may be placedupright in the stable near one wall thereof, or inclined at an an le,

passing through an opening 21 in the sta le wall and having its deliveryend arranged to do osit its contents into the wagon 10 or otl ierconveyance. 'In order to manipulate this conveyer 9, there may beapplied to the journal 8 of the roller 7 at its deliver end a suitablehandle 22, shown in dotted 'nes in Fig. 8. Now, suppose that thecontents of the stallshave been deposited on the constarte veyers fortwo or three da S, de ending on the size of the stable, and t at it sdesirable to convey this material to suitable wagons. The system ofconveyors is set' into motion after the conveyor 9 has been placed inproper relation with the wagon 10.

Sup ose, however, that the conveyor 9 is una le to handle thomaterial asrapidly as it is deposited thereon from the conveyor 6 the pits may bedispensed with and the con when running at full speed. This is quicklycorrected by a suitable mani ulation of the lever 15 so that the speedof t e conve ers 6" may be reduced as desired and their do iveryproportionately checked until the overload on the conveyor- 9 is,disposed of, when they may be again speeded up to their normal rate.

In Fig. 5 there is shown a means whereby veyers are carried uponsupportsabovo the floor of' the stable next to the side walls thereof,so that when not in use the conveyors may be turned up against 'the wallout of the way. For this reason these supports, indicated at 23, are hined at 24 in the stable structure so that they ma be turned u against thewall and there he d in an suita le manner.

the drawings the invention has been shown lar ol 1 diagrammatic and itwill be understoo t atsuitable mechanism will be provlded for thevarious parts and supportqng means will be provided for the conveyors sothat they will not sag between their ends, and any type of conveyor adated to the purposes 0 the invention whereby the con tents willbemaintained on the conveyor until the'discharge end, is reached, may beptilized in the practical form of the inven- Referring to the doors orcovers 5, it will be seen that they are hinged on a central line toyokes 25 which, in turn, are hinged or swept on to the doors or covers.

lifted as indicatedby dotted lines,

As the contents of each conveyer are deposited upon a pulley 29 hungfrom a truck 30 movable over the pits on an overhead track 31; The

doors or covers are located so as to receive most of the material andWhat is not deposited thereon may be readily scraped or means of thehooks the doors or covers 5 may be'engaged in any order and lifted atone end by the ropes and the material thereon be deposited in theconveyors in the pits,

NOW, by

the doors or covers being tilted as they are Flg. 1. It be understoodthat one pit may extend through the center of the stable, and also thatthe conveyors will be the type hav-' ing flexible sides to revent thematerial 35 from pressing against t e sides or walls of the pits.

I claim: 1. In a stable, the combination with a series. of stallstherein, of-pits arranged in operative relation to said stalls,interconnected conveyors in said pits, a discharge conveyer at thedischarge end of the interconnected conveyers, and means whereby theremay be imparted to the-dischar e con 5 I veyer a higher relative rate ofspee than that of the other conveyors.

in said stable beneath the floor thereof and stalls of the stable, andpivots for the covers connected to the upper edges of the pits. andmounted to swing above the same, about which pivots the covers may betilted while being raised from the pits, to cause material deposited onsaid covers to grayitate into the pits.

3. In a stable, pits arranged lon 1tud1-.

nally thereof and in juxtaposition to t o rear ends of'the stalls insaid stable, beneath the floor thereof, conveyors housed in said pitsand arranged to conve material placed thereon to a point of covers forsaid pits one located at each stall and constituting continuations ofthe floor ischarge, movable and stalls of the stable, pivotal mountingsfor the covers and means whereby the pivots of the covers maybe elevatedabove the floor but still in operative relation to the pits so that thecovers may be tilted while being elevated to cause material deposited onthem 5 to gravitate'in-to the pits.

4. In astable, a series of conveyors arranged in operative relatlon tothe stalls and interconnected for simultaneous motion, an-

other conveyer extendible to the exterior of seam a the stable' andreceiving material from the my own, I have hereto affixed my signaturediszhar e end (pf the series of voonfveyers, in the presence of twowitnesses. an a riction five or t e series 0 interconnected oonveyersarranged to vary their SUVESTEB RICHARD KIMBALL' 5 rate of speed withoutaffecting the speed of Witnesses:

the delivery conveyer. HENRY HELVIO,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as LEO J. LUKANITSCII.

